Football is the most popular sport in the majority of countries in the world. Not so long ago there were two major competing football games – EAs FIFA and Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer. Konami lost that battle. EAs FIFA is today’s number one football simulation game. It all started in 1994 with the first game called FIFA International Soccer, facing competition from other football games, today little known such as Sensible Soccer, Kick Off, and Match Day.
FIFA 21 was published several days ago as the new entry in the series. Listed in the Guinness World Records as the best-selling sports video game franchise, since its inception it sold more than 270 million units, and below are ten bestselling.
10 FIFA 10
FIFA 10 was the game that started the franchise in a new decade. It’s pretty similar to its predecessor in terms of graphics and gameplay. The new addition available in the game is a feature called “Total Football Experience” in which football news, like player transfers, fixtures, and results, from around the globe are visible. Additionally, features regarding the transfer system and the assistant manager were also improved.
FIFA 10 managed to sell 1.7 million copies in Europe in the first week of lunch, which made it then, the fastest-selling sports game ever. Since then, the game managed to sell 10.72 million copies.
9 FIFA 19
Published a year ago, FIFA 19, is, in the terms of players is still fresh, and features their real-life doubles, unlike FIFA 10 where most players went into retirement. FIFA 19 is also notable for being the last physically available game for PlayStation 3.
Sales of the game weren’t really impressive, and for example, in the United Kingdom, the game had 25 percent lower sales than that of FIFA 18, despite debuting in the first place on the sales chart. Nonetheless, the game, in the end, managed to sell 12.22 million copies worldwide, which is quite good, but less than their previous predecessors managed to achieve.
8 FIFA 11
FIFA 11 is the 18th installment in the series made available for all major platforms at that time, including Nintendo DS. Sales of the game were better than that of the previous entry, so were the reviews, and FIFA 11 later received an award for Sports Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.
The game also has several new features like “Street Football,” “Manual Leaderboard,” “Goalkeeper Intelligence,” and “Career Mode,” among others. Thanks to more than positive reviews and several changes and improvements in gameplay, FIFA 11 managed to sell 12.53 million copies.
7 FIFA 12
The 19th installment in the series, FIFA 12, was published across all platforms, including, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS, X as well handheld platforms PlayStation Portable, Nintendo 3DS, Xperia Play, Android, and iOS.
According to EA, the game sold 3.2 million copies in the first week of lunch, an increase of 23 percent from the previous entry. That also made it the fastest-selling game ever, at least at that time. FIFA 12 at the end managed to sell 13.06 million copies, slightly more than the previous entry.
6 FIFA 13
FIFA 13 didn’t make anything revolutionary as an entry, but with slight but visible improvements managed to receive critical acclaim and high sales. One of them is the “First Touch Control” feature and for the first time on the cover art is Barcelona’s, Lionel Messi.
The game sold 1.23 million copies in the first 48 hours of its release in the United Kingdom, while worldwide sales totaled 4.5 million in the first five days, and in the next four weeks sales reached 7.4 million units. FIFA 13 reached its lifetime sales of 15.36 million, which is 2 million more than its predecessor.
5 FIFA 16
FIFA 16 is the first entry in the series to include female players. It is also the first entry since FIFA 2000 that wasn’t published on any of Nintendo’s console. The PlayStation Vita version also wasn’t developed. Aside from that FIFA 16 is a classic entry in the series, with slight improvements in the addition of new content, with new players and stadiums.
Lionel Messi is still on games global cover art, while female players shine in North American versions. FIFA 16 received positive reviews and sold 15.82 million copies worldwide, less than its two predecessors, but enough for fifth place on this list.
4 FIFA 18
25th installment in the series didn’t offer anything innovative but followed the path set by its previous entry with story-based mode seen in the previous game, and this time called – The Journey: The Hunter Returns.
FIFA 18 performed well commercially and the game managed to sell 16.92 million copies, which makes it the third best-selling FIFA game. It also performed well critically with positive reviews winning an award for the Best Sports Game at Game Critic Awards and the award for the Best Sports Game of the Year at the 21st Annual D.I.C.E. Awards.
3 FIFA 17
The first FIFA game to use the Frostbite engine, FIFA 17, also introduced a singleplayer story mode where the player assumes the role of a fictional player named Alex Hunter. Additional new features are new attacking techniques, physical player overhaul, active intelligence system, and set-piece rewrite.
Japanese top league is available for the first time as well as Norway’s women national football team. Marco Reus is on the cover art of the game after he won global voting, conducted by EA sports. The game sold 17.02 million copies and was the fastest-selling game in the franchise.
2 FIFA 14
With 17.31 million units sold FIFA 14 is the second best-selling FIFA game. It features 33 fully licensed leagues over 69 stadiums, with 600 clubs and more than 16 000 players, as well 47 national teams.
The game received positive reviews across all platforms with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 having slightly better reviews thanks to being developed on a new engine called Ignite Engine. FIFA 14 is also notable for featuring new signature goal celebrations from a number of players like Cristiano Ronaldo’s “Calm Down,” Lionel Messy’s “Point to the Sky” and Gareth Bale’s “11 of Hearts.”
1 FIFA 15
With 18.03 million copies sold FIFA 15 is the best-selling FIFA game. The sales cannot be attributed to the fact that FIFA 15 did something new, better, or innovative than the previous versions, but rather thanks to the fact that the next installments didn’t do that. Obviously, some people don’t think it’s worth buying a pretty similar game with minor improvements.
Regardless of the sales, is still a fun and enjoyable football simulation experience, with good graphics, massive content, and faithful representation of real-life football. The game is available on pretty much every available platform, including PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS.
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